Travel Q&A

1. Newark is the largest city and an industrial center in which mid-atlantic state? a) New Jersey b) Maryland c) Virginia

2. Which river is known as China’s Sorrow because of its history of disastrous floods? a) Yellow b) Ayeyarwady c) Salween

3. Which people historically were involved with desert trading routes? a) Tuareg b) Polynesians c) Maori

4. Which city was an important Confederate port during the Civil War? a) San Francisco b) Mobile c) Atlanta

5. Which city is the westernmost point on the Erie Canal? a) Syracuse b) Cincinnati c) Buffalo

6. Which country does not border the Black Sea? a) Turkmenistan b) Turkey c) Georgia

7. A meteoroligist is to weather as a geologist is to a) rocks b) oceans c) climate

8. The deep roots of the tamarisk, or salt cedar tree, can deprive native plants of water. Although concentrated in the arid Southwest, this tree has spread as far as what state located north of Wyoming? a) Montana b) Oklahoma c) Idaho

9. Tornadoes occur most frequently in which region of the United States? a) Southwest b) Northwest c) Midwest

10. The International Date Line runs through which two oceans? a) Pacific and Arctic oceans b) Indian and Atlantic oceans c) Atlantic and Pacific oceans

11. Pine and eucalyptus trees have been planted to support the wood pulp industry in this country that is almost surrounded by South Africa. a) Zimbabwe b) Swaziland c) Mozambique